The first goal of any transportation agency is safety. Yet almost 40,000 Americans die on the transportation system every year. New proposals for safer streets, better vehicle design, and crash avoidance technology are reshaping the narrative around safety in an effort to reverse the downward trend of transportation safety. Governments are also concerned about the security of the system. Terrorism, hacking, and international affairs can threaten the transportation systems that support the national economy.
Tuesday, March 21 - House Transportation and Infrastructure - Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials - subcommittee roundtable discussion of...
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March 9, 2017 - For nearly a decade, a consortium of tech firms and auto manufacturers has roved the West,...
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March 9, 2017 - The long-running drama between the trucking industry and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) over...
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March 9, 2017 - Should the U.S. follow the lead of most other industrialized countries and use separate entities to...
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Tuesday, March 14 – Senate Energy and Natural Resources – full committee hearing on opportunities to improve American energy infrastructure (witness...
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Text of Reorganization Plan No. IV submitted to the Congress on April 11, 1940 and allowed to take effect on...
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March 3, 2017 - How do the new estimates of vehicle miles-traveled for 2016 relate to highway fatalities and to...
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Wednesday, March 8 - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - full committee hearing to examine the nomination of Elaine Duke...
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February 24, 2017 - Recent observations of how humans act behind the wheel of Level 2 autonomous vehicles, such as...
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Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars
The Implications of the Federal Ban on Chinese Railcars (September 2018) concludes that until the federal government better understands the potential national security risks of using Chinese railcars in American transit systems, a one-year appropriations ban is more appropriate than a permanent policy change.